viiru2alert | one (video) ♊ go on ahead; will you ever make it back?

[The feed clicks on to show a very angry black-haired boy, his background a striking contrast of gently shuffling leaves; it's obvious by the scenery that this kid hasn't gotten much farther than New Bark, and one might even be able to catch a glance of houses in the distance. Slightly visible off-screen is the limb of some kind of small brown Pokémon, spinning around rhythmically and humming its name in a low drone: Bal-toy. Bal-toy. Bal-toy. It seems this unfortunate tendency has put the newbie Trainer in something of a... mood. He turns around and swats the thing lightly with one hand, the other still holding onto his PokéGear.]

Will you shut up? I already have this music playing, I don't need you too.

[The Baltoy squeaks in surprise, but obliges, spinning silently now. The boy sighs deeply and returns his attention to the PokéGear. He commences speaking to the microphone now; several of his teeth are visibly pointed and oversized, to the degree where they give him a noticeable lisp. He's also wearing glasses with red and blue lenses -- making him immediately identifiable if you knew him in a past life.]

Okay, I don't know what kind of terrible fucking joke this is supposed to be, but I am really not in the mood for it. So congratulations, ED. You've actually managed to throw your shitty magic at things enough to do something of moderate skill and importance. Good job.

Now get me the fuck out!

[Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.]

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Well Jack's not here. Nobody has to die or fuck up or any of that other stuff here.

[Not that he's been through any of that himself but he's heard stories. YOU CAN JUST BE A KID HERE SOLLUX, IT'S GREAT......]

[Well maybe he doesn't want to be a kid, maybe he just likes waiting to die all the time, maybe he... is arguing for argument's sake, fuck.]

Bullshit. There is always room to die and fuck up.

Well yeah we can still fuck up, sure. But not in the catastrophic sense. Dying on the other hand, is pretty much impossible.

How? [Okay that sounded very incredulous. How can you never die? Unless they all upped and ascended to God Tier in the meantime, which is almost certainly impossible?]

[He shrugs.]

Nobody's really sure. That's just how it works here.

That's... convenient. [The tone of voice indicates that he still doesn't quite trust the 'convenience' of the whole thing, but you know what, maybe he'll go walk in front of a speeding truck later and find out.] What happens instead? Do you just not feel it when something tries to rip your head off?

Well, I can't honestly say I have ever had anything try to rip my head off before. And frankly, that is not on my list of things to do anytime soon. Or ever. [Having Gamzee bash his head in was enough, thanks.]

So I don't really know.

[...Wow.]

[Actually, Sollux needs to take a moment to consider this. Okay, so it's a place where John -- who has been here for ages, according to Karkat -- has never gotten his head ripped off, which is an achievement in itself. But furthermore, it's a place where everyone becomes a human. And even if he looks squishy and fleshy and totally stupid now, humans do not have Vision Twofold. And since humans don't have Vision Twofold, humans don't have the screaming...]

[He's known this since he came, it's kind of hard not to notice, but now is the first time he's had an opportunity to sit down and think about it. So sit back and enjoy the show, John; his expression is processing all of this, and even if his eyes are obscured by the glasses, it's kind of going all over the place. Eventually, he speaks; it comes out quietly, like he doesn't really want to admit it, and the PokéGear's shoddy microphone might garble it up a little bit.]

...Maybe the Fiduspawn isn't so bad.

[It's quite the achievement. Had he ever actually died back home (beyond that one time with the doomed timeline), John would be pretty proud of himself for going over a year and a half without getting stabbed, torn apart, or otherwise horribly maimed.]

[John just waits patiently while Sollux takes his time to mull things over, smiling idly and hoping that whatever conclusion the former-troll comes to, it's an agreeable one and not one that will send him flying off the handle. When Sollux finally does speak...John misses half of it.]

What was that about Fiduspawn? You got kind of cut off...

Doesn't matter. [Sollux shakes his head; on some level, he was impressed that John knew what Fiduspawn was at all, but then he considered that he probably spoke with so many other trolls that the connection had to have been made somewhere along the line. And as for his confession, he already said it once, not doing so again, no sirree. Instead, he grasps for another topic of conversation that can lead them away from that little trainwreck of thought.] Where does one get decent Pokébeasts around Goldenrod?

[Blame Tavros and Vriska. Mostly Tavros.]

...Golden...rod? I thought you just got here!

Yeah, KK picked me up and I got dumped here. [Granted, he was standing outside the city right now and all scenery looks alike... ~~Tile graphics for the loss!~~]

That was...fast, jesus. [He's not really surprised by this answer, more surprised at himself for not realizing that would be the answer sooner. Because that's just what best friends do.]

But uh...there are a few different species out on the routes to the south and north. Ilex forest has some rarer Pokemon in it but that's like...a three or four day's walk away. Couple of hours if you can hitch another flying ride. And trust me, it takes a while to hunt down the rare stuff. Makes for a good camping trip though!

one (video) ♊ go on ahead; will you ever make it back?

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